Jeremy Schmutz

Dec 3, 2024 | cell.com | Coralie E. Salesse-Smith |Jin Zhang |Timothy Yates |Meng Xie |Kuntal De |Dhananjay Gotarkar | +4 more

Jan 16, 2024 | nature.com | Jessen V Bredeson |Owen Smith |Jessica Lyons |Jane Grimwood |Jeremy Schmutz |Mustafa K. Khokha | +13 more

AbstractFrogs are an ecologically diverse and phylogenetically ancient group of anuran amphibians that include important vertebrate cell and developmental model systems, notably the genus Xenopus. Here we report a high-quality reference genome sequence for the western clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis, along with draft chromosome-scale sequences of three distantly related emerging model frog species, Eleutherodactylus coqui, Engystomops pustulosus, and Hymenochirus boettgeri.

Aug 7, 2023 | nature.com | Lei Yu |Marina Khachaturyan |Michael Matschiner |Adam Healey |Mathieu Cusson |J. Emmett Duffy | +17 more

Correction to: Nature Plants https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-023-01464-3. Published online 20 July 2023. In the version of the article initially published, Yves Van de Peer’s name appeared incorrectly as Yves Van De Peer. In addition, two of Yves Van de Peer’s affiliations were wrongly combined into a single affiliation.

Jul 20, 2023 | nature.com | Lei Yu |Marina Khachaturyan |Michael Matschiner |Adam Healey |J. Emmett Duffy |F. Joel Fodrie | +17 more

Study species and sampling designEelgrass (Z. marina L.) is the most widespread seagrass species of the temperate to Arctic Northern Hemisphere3. It is being developed as a model for studying seagrass evolution and genomics17,19,21,49. Z. marina is a foundation species of shallow water ecosystems17 with a number of critical ecological functions including enhancement of fish and crustacean recruitment50, improvement of water quality51 and the sequestration of ‘blue carbon’52,53.

Jun 21, 2023 | nature.com | Katrien Devos |Chris Plott |Avinash Sreedasyam |Jane Grimwood |Jerry Jenkins |John Lovell | +4 more

Genome sequencingSeed from a single self-pollinated plant of E. coracana subsp. coracana accession KNE 796-S was planted in trays and grown under artificial lighting (14 h days) at 27 °C. Seedlings were harvested approximately one month postemergence. For DNA extractions59, frozen leaves were ground to a fine powder in liquid nitrogen in a precooled mortar and gently extracted in a CTAB buffer that included proteinase K, PVP-40 and β-mercaptoethanol for 1 h at 50 °C.